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FOREIGN FIELDS An escapee from the world of high fashion, Henriette has moved to Italy, looking forward to the simple life. Umbria seems an ideal place to raise her adopted baby daughter Krishna, as well as indulge in a spot of romance with any obliging Italians. Henrietta is in search of fun, sun and la dolce vita... Her elder sister Isabel is definitely not looking for romance. Newly single, she has finally escaped the drudgery of a complacent husband and ungrateful children. Only life inLa Picccola Valle della Tristezzaisn't quite the exotic - and erotic - paradise they expected. It is not just that their next-door neighbours are common. Henrietta and Isabel had been looking forward to mixing with some local colour. No, it's worse, far worse. Their new neighbours are English! With Mary, Bernard and their three children living on one side, and retired civil servant Carl and his partner Hugo on the other, it seems that their foreign fields can be all too familiar... Piatkus Books 2000 ISBN 0-7499-3169-8 |
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TEA & TIRAMISU Miranda is house sitting for her daughter and Italian son-in-law in Venice on the edge of the grand canal. The Palazzo Bobolino seems to have attracted a selection of British waifs and strays, all determined to experience the real Italy. Among them there's Lissabelle, an author who's not about to risk her 'famous for being famous' reputation by committing a single word to paper; tortured artist Marco Polo, and token American Bruce, then there's Netty who's so in love with everything Italian she's yet to notice that her aging gondolier lover is more aging than lover - and an anglophile though and through Miranda has fallen once before for Venice's false charms. She's not about to make the same mistake twice. Venice may have passion and a flair for melodrama but Miranda would much rather settle for tea and toast than a cappuccino any day of the week. But she's a long way from the safety of Shropshire now and in Venice the past is always just around the corner.... Piatkus Books 2001 ISBN 0-7499-3241-4 |
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